It’s hard to say exactly what actually happened because all we have are account from users who were active back then, but I can’t seem to find any archives of the moderator list. Some old Reddit users say that it was indeed possible to add people as moderators without their consent (something I noticed recently that you can also do on Lemmy, hope it gets fixed soon 🙊) , and apparently this was commonplace. Beyond user accounts it’s unclear when and how he was added as moderator, for how long he was a mod or how active he was on the sub.

I tried looking for some archives of the subreddit and spez’s account, however I didn’t find anything that helpful. I only found two archives on archive.is from 2010 and 2011 (which I’m not gonna link here for obvious reasons), and the moderator lists didn’t include spez. I also tried looking at archives of his userpage to see if he was listed as a moderator of the subreddit, but it looks like Reddit only added the list of moderated subreddits to the userpage after r/jailbait had already been banned.

I’m not sure, I just copied what chess.com gave me.

It looks like Lemmy might’ve messed up the formatting of the PGN, but I tried copying and pasting it into Lichess’ board editor and it still worked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Libertarian Socialist and generally anti-fascist.

In the eyes of Republicans basically everyone who doesn’t want to genocide queer people is a “far left communist” now lol

Are you planning to do more analyses like these in the future?

If you mean with regards to keywords that appear on the NYT and how public opinion is changing then probably no, but later I can make a visualization for the terms that you mentioned. (I’ve run out of API calls for now.)

I do plan on continuing to write articles and make videos on politics from a leftist perspective though. One thing I’m working on right now is collecting some evidence on how conservatism is harmful to kids. Here’s a sneak peek of one of the graphs I made.

Also from a glance at your code, it is not clear to me if the data you collected is for only US news or include worldwide. Did you control for that?

I did not. The API doesn’t seem to have an option to filter different languages, but after querying a few words in Spanish to see if any results came up the only matches I got were from articles in English that referenced something in Spanish, like the name of a company or shows and events.

I even tried querying the title and some phrases from this article in Spanish but nothing came up, so it looks like the results only include articles written in English.

Oh no that’s quite alright, I already disabled that API key after publishing the article though I probably should have just edited it out of the file in the first place

listen i just don’t want people to see all the furry porn i upvoted

I’m a bit late to the party but I think a liminal space theme would be cool.

That’s only if they draw an actual swastika. Nazis are so dumb that half the time they can’t even draw a proper one.